Nate DeYonker
@de-lab.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ University of Memphis Department of Chemistry. My words and thoughts. Always looking for new team members! synth/music/cat enthusiast. The enshittification migration continues.
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Nate DeYonker
@de-lab.bsky.social
· May 8
DETROIT UNDERGROUND
デトロイト
アンダーグラウンド
Detroit Underground (est. 1997) is a multidisciplinary arts collective. Functioning primarily as a record label dedicated to electronic based experimental music and video installation.
detund.bandcamp.com
Hi everyone, today's the big day. For the first time in 30 years of music-making, I have a solo album being released by a legitimate record label.
Noiserpuss - Handcrafted
A digital release by Detroit Underground
detund.bandcamp.com
Noiserpuss - Handcrafted
A digital release by Detroit Underground
detund.bandcamp.com
AI should be used to make strong skills stronger, but we are training multiple generations of K-12+college+grad school that they should use AI to make their weak or non-existent skills strong... what could possibly go wrong?
December 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
AI should be used to make strong skills stronger, but we are training multiple generations of K-12+college+grad school that they should use AI to make their weak or non-existent skills strong... what could possibly go wrong?
Happy holidays from the DeYonker lab and an M&M
December 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Happy holidays from the DeYonker lab and an M&M
One of the saddest part about going through Andrew Weatherall's DJ/radio set archive in reverse chronological order is that I have hit the late 90's, there are few full track listings, and suddenly Shazam can't ID any of the best tracks.
December 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
One of the saddest part about going through Andrew Weatherall's DJ/radio set archive in reverse chronological order is that I have hit the late 90's, there are few full track listings, and suddenly Shazam can't ID any of the best tracks.
Isn't academia great? Yesterday I got my 100th paper accepted, nearly finished a grant proposal, started SERMACS mass emails, finished grading for the semester. Today I'm panicking about a collaborator who can't submit paperwork on time, and one of my grad students quit.
December 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Isn't academia great? Yesterday I got my 100th paper accepted, nearly finished a grant proposal, started SERMACS mass emails, finished grading for the semester. Today I'm panicking about a collaborator who can't submit paperwork on time, and one of my grad students quit.
Walked past a lady at the TX State Fair who said "Those pig races were UNGODLY"
October 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Walked past a lady at the TX State Fair who said "Those pig races were UNGODLY"
I just successfully installed Win 11 on my laptop even though it has an unsupported processor architecture. I AM THE LIZARD KING, I CAN DO ANYTHING!
October 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I just successfully installed Win 11 on my laptop even though it has an unsupported processor architecture. I AM THE LIZARD KING, I CAN DO ANYTHING!
... and The Founder Of Antifa's Girlfriend was ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN!
ALBERT EINSTEIN!
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
... and The Founder Of Antifa's Girlfriend was ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN!
ALBERT EINSTEIN!
Reposted by Nate DeYonker
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Academic freedom and meritocracy will be finished. Our scientific institutions will be no better than China or Russia. Leveraging science against Humanities/Social Sciences/Fine Arts. Where have we seen this in our history books?
Tenured professors should strike nationwide if this happens
Tenured professors should strike nationwide if this happens
Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda for better access to federal money
A document sent to the universities encourages them to adopt the White House’s vision for America’s campuses, with commitments to accept the government’s priorities on admissions, women’s sports, free...
www.pbs.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Academic freedom and meritocracy will be finished. Our scientific institutions will be no better than China or Russia. Leveraging science against Humanities/Social Sciences/Fine Arts. Where have we seen this in our history books?
Tenured professors should strike nationwide if this happens
Tenured professors should strike nationwide if this happens
I feel like AI is going to make earning a C in college classes go extinct. There will be four types of students
1) Those who do the work and get As/Bs
2) Those who cheat, don't get caught, and get As/Bs
3) Those who cheat, get caught, and get Fs
4) Those who don't do the work and get Fs
1) Those who do the work and get As/Bs
2) Those who cheat, don't get caught, and get As/Bs
3) Those who cheat, get caught, and get Fs
4) Those who don't do the work and get Fs
October 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I feel like AI is going to make earning a C in college classes go extinct. There will be four types of students
1) Those who do the work and get As/Bs
2) Those who cheat, don't get caught, and get As/Bs
3) Those who cheat, get caught, and get Fs
4) Those who don't do the work and get Fs
1) Those who do the work and get As/Bs
2) Those who cheat, don't get caught, and get As/Bs
3) Those who cheat, get caught, and get Fs
4) Those who don't do the work and get Fs
I ate at a hot dog at the roller skating rink last night and it changed my life. In the sense that my stomach has been aggressively bubbling ever since
September 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I ate at a hot dog at the roller skating rink last night and it changed my life. In the sense that my stomach has been aggressively bubbling ever since
Had a group meeting to tell my new grad students that I have choice paralysis and am really not sure what they should work on and that it's a very stressful challenging time to start grad school, but we quickly pivoted to brainstorming and then both of them getting exciting first projects.
August 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Had a group meeting to tell my new grad students that I have choice paralysis and am really not sure what they should work on and that it's a very stressful challenging time to start grad school, but we quickly pivoted to brainstorming and then both of them getting exciting first projects.
The enemy of Drexciya is my enemy
ra.co/news/83167
ra.co/news/83167
Trump's White House denounces Drexciya-inspired Smithsonian exhibit · News ⟋ RA
The exhibit, which closed in 2024, highlighted the Detroit duo's vision of an underwater realm populated by the descendants of enslaved women who drowned during the Middle Passage.
ra.co
August 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The enemy of Drexciya is my enemy
ra.co/news/83167
ra.co/news/83167
Yay, @dwappett.bsky.social is finally here posting a great accomplishment made while working in my lab! Here's to many more, and for her to find an awesome next job (that she is going to be looking for soon because of funding or lack thereof)
August 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Yay, @dwappett.bsky.social is finally here posting a great accomplishment made while working in my lab! Here's to many more, and for her to find an awesome next job (that she is going to be looking for soon because of funding or lack thereof)
Reposted by Nate DeYonker
What an awesome @acs.org meeting for the University of Memphis’ comp chem postdocs - we won 2/3 CINF division scholarships for scientific excellence! #ACSFall2025
August 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
What an awesome @acs.org meeting for the University of Memphis’ comp chem postdocs - we won 2/3 CINF division scholarships for scientific excellence! #ACSFall2025
Do yall remember that republican lawyer who cataloged instances of police brutality on twitter during the BLM protests and then disappeared after the number of videos hit quadruple digits? I thought that was going to be rock bottom
June 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Do yall remember that republican lawyer who cataloged instances of police brutality on twitter during the BLM protests and then disappeared after the number of videos hit quadruple digits? I thought that was going to be rock bottom
Reposted by Nate DeYonker
Found this old chestnut while cleaning my desk today #chemsky
(I have no idea of its origins and it is a modification of a Matt Groenings cartoon about ‘modern creative types’)
(I have no idea of its origins and it is a modification of a Matt Groenings cartoon about ‘modern creative types’)
May 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Found this old chestnut while cleaning my desk today #chemsky
(I have no idea of its origins and it is a modification of a Matt Groenings cartoon about ‘modern creative types’)
(I have no idea of its origins and it is a modification of a Matt Groenings cartoon about ‘modern creative types’)
VcvRack is the thing I'm least interested in
May 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
VcvRack is the thing I'm least interested in
A friend of mine in UMemphis Biology is looking for a postdoc! daiglelab.org The postdoctoral fellow will lead efforts to develop novel machine learning models for integrating omics datasets with relevant molecular pathways to further improve these capabilities. workforum.memphis.edu/postings/43981
DAIGLE LAB
Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology
daiglelab.org
May 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A friend of mine in UMemphis Biology is looking for a postdoc! daiglelab.org The postdoctoral fellow will lead efforts to develop novel machine learning models for integrating omics datasets with relevant molecular pathways to further improve these capabilities. workforum.memphis.edu/postings/43981
my favorite thing about youtube ads now being able to scoot around AdBlock is that there is also this nearly 8 second pause of black screen in between a first and second ad. Like it's loading a fucking dungeon in Morrowind on my laptop from 2006 or something
May 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
my favorite thing about youtube ads now being able to scoot around AdBlock is that there is also this nearly 8 second pause of black screen in between a first and second ad. Like it's loading a fucking dungeon in Morrowind on my laptop from 2006 or something
Does anyone else feel like in this world where manufacturing quality and the durability of things gets crappier and crappier, PreztelChips keep getting saltier and more addictively good?
May 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Does anyone else feel like in this world where manufacturing quality and the durability of things gets crappier and crappier, PreztelChips keep getting saltier and more addictively good?
Hi everyone, today's the big day. For the first time in 30 years of music-making, I have a solo album being released by a legitimate record label.
Noiserpuss - Handcrafted
A digital release by Detroit Underground
detund.bandcamp.com
Noiserpuss - Handcrafted
A digital release by Detroit Underground
detund.bandcamp.com
DETROIT UNDERGROUND
デトロイト
アンダーグラウンド
Detroit Underground (est. 1997) is a multidisciplinary arts collective. Functioning primarily as a record label dedicated to electronic based experimental music and video installation.
detund.bandcamp.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Hi everyone, today's the big day. For the first time in 30 years of music-making, I have a solo album being released by a legitimate record label.
Noiserpuss - Handcrafted
A digital release by Detroit Underground
detund.bandcamp.com
Noiserpuss - Handcrafted
A digital release by Detroit Underground
detund.bandcamp.com
Get ready yall!
open.spotify.com/album/3oomOQ...
open.spotify.com/album/3oomOQ...
Handcrafted
Noiserpuss · Album · 2025 · 11 songs
open.spotify.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Get ready yall!
open.spotify.com/album/3oomOQ...
open.spotify.com/album/3oomOQ...
cool NSF direct costs got capped, maybe now University of Memphis will get properly pissed
May 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
cool NSF direct costs got capped, maybe now University of Memphis will get properly pissed
Awesome to spend quality time with the 2025 and 2026 ACS presidents in Memphis this semester!
April 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Awesome to spend quality time with the 2025 and 2026 ACS presidents in Memphis this semester!